Murakami T
The T-Shirts I Love
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- 14,99 €
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- 14,99 €
Publisher Description
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection.
Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a more intimate, and perhaps more unique, passion: his T-shirt-collecting habit.
In Murakami T, the famously reclusive novelist shows us his T-shirts - including gems found in bookshops, charity shops and record stores - from those featuring whisky, animals, cars and superheroes, to souvenirs of marathons and a Beach Boys concert in Honolulu, to the shirt that inspired the beloved short story 'Tony Takitani'. Accompanied by short, frank essays that have been translated into English for the first time, these photographs reveal much about Murakami's multifaceted and wonderfully eccentric persona.
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In this collection of beguiling pieces novelist Murakami (1Q84) wrote for the Japanese fashion magazine Popeye, he reflects on his collection of T-shirts and the comfortable, quippy, and blithely consumerist aspects of life they represent. An "I Put Ketchup on My Ketchup" T-shirt prompts a fond tribute to American hamburger joints; a selection of car-brand shirts sparks a discussion of why Ferrari or Porsche T's make one look like a rich jerk while Volkswagen T's are tastefully middle-class; lizard T-shirt images remind Murakami of uneasily stroking the scaly creature at a zoo, while bird images remind him of getting attacked by crows while out running; and a T-shirt with a dog cartoon provokes a warning to men that they may feel "a little uncomfortable" wearing such adorable designs: "chances are very good that a girl or woman will tell you ‘Woah—that's so cute!' " Seekers of deep cultural analysis should be advised that Murakami's pensées resolutely avoid that. ("In crowded, noisy bars," he observes in an essay on beer T-shirts, "you have to shout out your order to the bartender, and I've found through experience that the one brand I can pronounce so that it gets through to them is Heineken.") Murakami's many fans will eat up this charming ramble.
